Traditional requirement engineering approaches pay little attention to how the requirements are interpreted and shared by different parties in an organization. Our study extends the previous research of social and organizational requirement elicitation by suggesting that requirement shaping during a project can be described as a process where attitudes and expectations are filtered, shifted and...

Understanding individual reactions to computing technology is a central concern of information systems research. This research seeks to understand these reactions from the perspective of Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura 1977, 1978, 1982, 1986), a widely accepted theory of behavior in Social Psychology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The theory holds that behavior, environment, and cog...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare nurses' satisfaction with, and expectations of, hospital information systems in two teaching hospitals. METHODS This was a survey study, which was completed in 2014. The potential participants were 267 nurses who worked in two teaching hospitals and used the same hospital information system. Data were collected using two questionnaires. Both questionnair...

In recent years, environmental issues have attracted the attention of enterprises. Enterprises often monitor and control their influence and the effect of their decisions on the environment through cost benefit analysis via an environmental accounting system (EAS). The introduction of EAS is considered a reform for many enterprises, but it is also a challenge for them, particularly with the acc...

As noted by Boan and Funderburk (2003), people in healthcare organizations work, relate, and interact in ways that are guided by the norms of their organization, their professions, and the healthcare industry as a whole. Organizational culture is often called upon as a descriptive, organizing and/or explanatory construct to characterize the shared beliefs, perceptions, expectations, norms and a...

An organizationally adept agent (OAA) adjusts its behavior when given annotated organizational guidelines. More importantly, it can also determine when such guidelines become ineffective and proactively adapt its behavior to better achieve organizational objectives. A central OAA tenet is a clear separation between operational decision making (the detailed moment-to-moment behavior decisions ma...

We draw on the values literature from social psychology and the acculturation literature from cross-cultural psychology to develop and test a theory of how signals about an organization's diversity management (DM) approach affect perceptions of organizational attractiveness among potential employees. We examine the mediating effects of individuals' merit-based attributions about hiring decision...

Using a nationally representative sample of college faculty from a wide array of institutions and science disciplines, this study investigates links between organizational conditions and women's representation on college faculties. Hypotheses derive from competing explanations for the sharp differences found in women's and men's career outcomes in academia: institutionalized discrimination that...

Informal social relations play a significant role in people's lives. Despite considerable research on social networks and social capital, sociologists still do not clearly understood why some relationships lead to better outcomes than others. This article examines how individuals mobilize social support, defined as resources that flow through social relations, to achieve their objectives. We pr...